search project "ubuntu" returns nothing

The picker fails because the request is on the wrong domain (answers or bugs). The picker works when the url is written as http://launchpad.net/answers. I think this problem is happening because the page is mapped to the root object, which is the mainsite by default. I am not sure where the fix should be: popup.py or may be vocabulary-picker.js.template.

Note that Ubuntu will always return no matches because there are too many. This is bad since the term is the only one that can be used. Maybe the DistributionOrProductOrProject vocab should returrn exact name/displayname and state more that too many matches were found.

The "/people/" is hardcoded in VocabularyPickerWidget.popup. I think it should be set to "/" We could subclass, but in this example the user is looking for a distro or a project, whch does not have a url.

if the url is written http://launchpad.net/answers, it gets redirected to http://edge.launchpad.net/answers and the result is

Lost something?
There’s no page with this address in Launchpad.

I have a branch that appears to fix this. I will not be certain until I qa it on qastaging.

The issue is that there are two many results when we know there is an exact match. This is a dupe of bug 255282.

I undupped this because this use case is still broken though we have fixed many related issues.

Braindumping my current investigation:

The search makes use of DistributionOrProductOrProjectGroupVocabulary, which returns about 450 rows when it searches for '%ubuntu%'. Three of those are distributions, 13 are projects, and the remaining 430-ish are products. The SQL that the picker generates has ORDER BY PillarName.name, which means the *exact string* is a major disadvantage, since it starts with U.

Fixed in stable r13584 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/13584>.